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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Did you just link me a CNN article? And you probably believe what they say.... Sorry, didn't read it cause of BS filter.
No sorry it's not all about you!
Originally posted by Mokoman
It's not about me thank god. It's about your diluted view of the world, caused mainly by CNN and the likes. Watching it for just 10 minutes makes my blood boil and want to go out on the street and kill somone (figuratively of course)
It's EXACTLY the same as Aljazeera or Hamas TV or whatever, I wish you would just understand that.
Well see that's your problem! Why in the hell are you watching that garbage in the first place? I have provided links and charts and a concise explanation to support what I've been saying.
What point exactly are we supposed to be missing here? I know from real life experiences what I've been sharing. No I don't look at the US actions through rose colored glasses. Far from it. If there is anything that I have said that cannot be backed up by facts then please let me know.
Originally posted by Mokoman
Besides, us Europeans never had an issue with the Russians / Communists / Reds or whatever names you have for them. YOU were the ones with the conflict. They were no threat to us. It was a showdown of masculinity between the US and USSR. They had no intention of threathening Europe. Just because you guys were threathened you made it appear as if they were going to destroy the world. US had an equal part in that conflict as the USSR did.
Originally posted by Mokoman
Weren't you the one who said that we in Europe (you said EU) are enjoying the longest period of peace and prosperity, ever? Wasn't I the one who had to wake you up and tell you that I had personally fought in a European war less than 10 years ago? Plucking out shrapnel from civilian flesh and digging up mass graves left right and center. Some concept of peace you have.
You obviously have no idea what is really going on in the real world.
Almost half of present day Europe was behind the Iron curtain and you said that the Russian communists were never a threat? I noticed how before you WOKE me up to the fact that. you failed to account for that part of Europe when you thought then as you do now you were making a point.
Oh and by the way whom exactly is causing that conflict in the newly added location of the EU?
Originally posted by Mokoman
USSR suffered the highest losses of any country in WWII. They were in no position to take over Europe.
Please let's just leave it, your view on historic events will not allow for any new insights to be assimilated.
Originally posted by Mokoman
Please let's just leave it, your view on historic events will not allow for any new insights to be assimilated.
Originally posted by Mokoman
It's about your diluted view of the world, caused mainly by CNN and the likes.
Originally posted by Mokoman
You obviously have no idea what is really going on in the real world.
Originally posted by plumranch
reply to post by Amagnon
Certainly the US campaign against the USSR - political, and espionage was successful - but the system was unsustainable - it was a rotten, top down model that relied on brutality and murder. You should also rightfully claim responsibility for Chernobyl - which was 99% likely due to US espionage.
The US espionage/ Chernobyl disaster connection is an interesting one for anyone planning a novel. What do you have to prove that? I can't find a shred.
In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official.
"It is unlikely that the sequence of events
that led to the meltdown of the Chernobyl
nuclear reactor could have been accidental"
and that
"Technicians which disconnected the safety
mechanisms of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant,
Alexandrov, Feinberg, Sagdeev, Zaslavsky,
are now living in comfort abroad."
"While there were no physical casualties from the pipeline explosion, there was significant damage to the Soviet economy," he writes. "Its ultimate bankruptcy, not a bloody battle or nuclear exchange, is what brought the Cold War to an end.
The role that Reagan and the United States played in the collapse of the Soviet Union is still a matter of intense debate. Some argue that U.S. policy was the key factor -- Reagan's military buildup; the Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan's proposed missile defense system; confronting the Soviets in regional conflicts; and rapid advances in U.S. high technology.
But others say that internal Soviet factors were more important, including economic decline and President Mikhail Gorbachev's revolutionary policies of glasnost and perestroika.
Increasing doubts Years later, Russian people began to grasp the impact of the disintegration of the Soviet Union and realized who likely benefited from it. Also, with the passage of time, the naive belief of Russian people in the benevolence of the United States,
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by Mokoman
Please let's just leave it, your view on historic events will not allow for any new insights to be assimilated.
Originally posted by Mokoman
It's about your diluted view of the world, caused mainly by CNN and the likes.
Originally posted by Mokoman
You obviously have no idea what is really going on in the real world.
You don't know anything about me or what I've experienced nor where I've been or what I've seen. So please stop embarrassing yourself with your Narrow minded assumptions.
Originally posted by dragonridr
reply to post by Mokoman
Bottom line is apparently they dont teach history in your country do they. I suggest you do some research maybe this will help, but again this is very general and i suggest take the time to research what im telling you!
At the end of WWII many European nations, especially those in the west, were very weak and had limited independence. In 1946, Diplomat George F. Kennan advocated Containment in these nations and across Europe. Containment was a "US policy during the Cold War, which aimed to prevent the spread of communism around the globe under the sponsorship of the Soviet Union". Kennan stated that the U.S. had to stop the spread of Soviet influence among the weakened nations of Europe, especially in the nations bordering the Soviet Empire. He felt that it was the United States duty to make sure that the Communistic ideals of the Soviets did not expand into other nations, enabling them to expand their empire.
Harry S. Truman agreed with George Kennan and in 1947, two years after taking office and two years after the beginning of the Cold War, he released his doctrine for dealing with communism and foreign policy. The Truman Doctrine proclaimed that Truman believed that any nation resisting Communism that economic and financial need, such as Turkey, that it should be U.S. foreign policy to aid these nations in order to keep them from conforming to communistic ways. He explained that this aid supplied to these nations would be primarily economic and financial aid which would lead to political stability within these nations. The Truman Doctrine specifically aimed to help the nations of Greece and Turkey by supplying them with an amount totaling $400,000,000. The economic and military aid that was given to the Greeks and Turks saved their nations from being overthrown by communist guerilla organizations. The Truman Doctrine was clearly recognized by the Soviets as an anti-communist doctrine, and a threat to their attempts to spread their influences.
The bottom line had the United States done nothing the soviets would have swallowed europe whole.No amount of revisionist history can change that fact.If you dont believe the soviets were a threat to europe why dont you check into why poland is still scared of the Russians.
Originally posted by Mokoman
If you were to use sources from outside the US then that would have made your case stronger, but you haven't.
Originally posted by Mokoman
Did you just link me a CNN article? And you probably believe what they say....
Sorry, didn't read it cause of BS filter.
Originally posted by Mokoman
Lots of people are scared of the Russians but ask yourself this: was this caused by agressive actions from the Russians themselves, or is there a slight chance that they were convinced to fear them by western propaganda?
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by Mokoman
Lots of people are scared of the Russians but ask yourself this: was this caused by agressive actions from the Russians themselves, or is there a slight chance that they were convinced to fear them by western propaganda?
Western propaganda didn't force people by the droves to risk their lives trying to escape the Soviet dominate East to the free West.
The Berlin wall wasn't built to keep people out but to keep people in.
Originally posted by Mokoman
And regarding the Truman Doctrine (love the name) that really doesn't mean anything to me. I suppose you also believe that the Patriot Act is there to protect you from terrorists?
The Marshall Plan (from its enactment, officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was the primary plan of the United States for rebuilding and creating a stronger foundation for the countries of Western Europe, and repelling communism after World War II.
The reconstruction plan, developed at a meeting of the participating European states, was established on June 5, 1947. It offered the same aid to the USSR and its allies, but they did not accept it.
The plan was in operation for four years beginning in April 1948 By the time the plan had come to completion, the economy of every participant state, with the exception of Germany, had grown well past pre-war levels.
Remember when you guys wanted to invade Iraq? And us EU folk were voting on the issue if we were to join you in mobilizing our troops? More than half of the countries voted against the invasion. Until your president threathened us in a live press conference with the line : "You're either our ally.... or our enemy" (a day I'll never forget. No need to post a source, this will be forever imprinted in my memory)
Tyranny at it's most gruesome. We were feared into participating in a bogus war on terror who nobody outside the US was supporting.
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